Life, Organisms, and Human Nature

New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy

Luca Corti, Johannes-Georg Schülein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 363 Seiten

2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-41557-9 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective. Its 19 chapters move from the peculiarities of organic life to the peculiarities of the distinctly human life form and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic accounts of life. In light of the growing interest in nature within current philosophical debates, the book provides an overview of what the philosophical epoch of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Humboldt, the Romantics, Hegel, and others can contribute to our understanding of life today. The collection of essays represents a plurality of approaches that reflects the pluralism of the tradition itself - highlighting the liveliness and polyphonic nature of the issues at stake and the ways in which they were approached in post-Kantian thought.In combining historical and philosophical investigation, the collection constitutes a unique resourcefor scholars and graduate students working in various areas related to the study of nature in philosophy, contemporary theories of science, and the humanities more generally.

lt;p>Luca Corti is currently Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Research Group on Classical German Philosophy at the University of Padua (IT), the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago (US), and the University Paris I-Sorbonne (PR). His research focuses on German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel) and contemporary analytical philosophy, bringing the two areas into dialogue. He has published two books and several articles on these topics in international peer-reviewed journals. He is co-editor of Sellars and The History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge 2018) and of Hegel and Aristotle on the Metaphysics of Mind, a 2020 Special Issue of the Hegel Bulletin (Cambridge University Press). He is PI of the international project "Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy" (rethinkingnature.com) as well as of the project "Classical German Anthropologies".

Johannes-Georg Schülein studied Philosophy in Freiburg, Nice, and Berlin. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Classical German Philosophy/HegelArchive at the University of Bochum, Germany. He has been invited as a visiting scholar to Johns Hopkins University (USA) and Pennsylvania State University (USA). He is author of the book Metaphysik und ihre Kritik bei Hegel und Derrida (Meiner, 2016) and of several articles, including Nature's Otherness (Routledge, forthcoming) and Der Geist ist nicht das Höchste (International Yearbook of German Idealism 2018). He is co-editor of Andersheit um 1800. Figuren - Theorien - Darstellungsformen (Fink, 2011) and of Subjekt und Person (Meiner 2019).

Introduction: Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy.- I. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIC LIFE BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES.- 1. Organisms and Natural Ends in Kant's Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment.- 2. Kant and Biological Theory.- 3. Rethinking Schelling's Philosophy of Nature Through a Process Account of Emergence.- 4. Inadmissible Application: Some Notes on Causality and Life in Hegel.- 5. Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel's Organic Physics.- 6. Hegel's Theory of Space-Time (No, not that space-time).- II. UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN LIFE-FORM BETWEEN NATURE, SPIRIT, AND SOCIETY.- 7. 'All is Act.' Fichte's Idealism as Immortalism.- 8. 'True life is only in Death.' On Rejecting Life and Nature in Romanticism (Fichte, Novalis, Schlegel).- 9. Schelling on the Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature. The roleof the Naturphilosophie in the Freiheitsschrift.- 10. The State as Second Nature in Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism.- 11. The Psychical Relation.- 12. The Physical Body and Its Role in Hegel's Mature Ethical Theory.- 13. Second Nature and Self-Determination in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit.- 14. Gattungswesen and Universality: Feuerbach, Marx and German idealism.- III. NATURALISM AND THE BOUNDS OF NATURE.- 15. The Third Antinomy in the Age of Naturalism.- 16. Post-Bonnetian Naturalism.- 17. Romantic Empiricism in the Anthropocene: Unlocking A. v. Humboldt's and F. W. J. Schelling's Potential for the Environmental Humanities.- 18. Nature's System Within the System: Hegel's Idealist Philosophy of Nature.- 19. Scientism as Ideology; Speculative Naturalism as Qualified Decoloniality.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in German Idealism
Zusatzinfo	XX, 363 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	733 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte	Germanidealism • German Idealism • German Romanticism and Humboldt • German Romanticism andHumboldt • Hegel and Naturalism • History and philosophy of life sciences • Kant and Schelling • rethinking nature website • The notion of life and cognition • Thenotion of lifeandcognition • Theories of Nature • Theories of organism
ISBN-10	3-031-41557-4 / 3031415574
ISBN-13	978-3-031-41557-9 / 9783031415579
Zustand	Neuware